Edith Wharton in ContextAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 30 June 2015
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Tintner provides a detailed analysis of the complex interplay between Wharton and JamesA-how they influenced each other and how some of their writings operate as homages or personal jokes. So deeply was James in Whartonâ?Ts confidence, Tintner argues, that he provided her with source models for a number of her characters. In addition, Wharton found in his fiction structures for her own, especially forA The Age of Innocence. Tintner also brings her considerable knowledge of art history to bear in her study of art allusions in Whartonâ?Ts work. Whartonâ?Ts response both to the Italian painters active before Raphael and to the English Pre-Raphaelites of a generation before her own is analyzed here in three essays. These pieces demonstrate Whartonâ?Ts sensibility to changes in art tastes and collecting, the inheritance of Rossettiâ?Ts revolutionary paintings in the unfinished novel,A The Buccaneers, and the importance of home inA The Glimpses of the Moon, as demonstrated by Whartonâ?Ts use of Tiepoloâ?Ts fresco in the church of Scalzi. Tintner concludes by considering Whartonâ?Ts literary legacy and who Wharton has figured in the imaginations of recent writers, including Richard Howard, Louis Auchincloss, and Cathleen Schine. Tintner finds some part of Whartonâ?Ts personality or work evoked in a number of contemporary works and argues that this presence signals the beginning of an increasing influence.
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